Category: Healthcare Finance News

HIMSS25: Project managers need the skills to lead AI transformation

LAS VEGAS – AI is the new wave for project management, according to Pierre Le Manh, president and CEO of PMI, the Project Management Institute, who spoke with HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf during a fireside chat at the HIMSS25 Executive Summit here …

Colorado recognizes data sovereignty for tribes

LAS VEGAS – When promoting health in tribal communities, it’s important for public health departments to respect and understand tribal sovereignty – including when it comes to healthcare data.

Fairfax County modernized data with a focus on people

LAS VEGAS – Fairfax County Health Department in Northern Virginia was in a unique position: It’s the largest county and health district in the state, and only one of three that’s locally administered. It also experienced a wake-up call during the COVID…

HIMSS25: ROI as the ultimate measure of value

LAS VEGAS – Patti Phillips, cofounder and CEO of ROI Institute, looked at the value of investment and how to reposition the return on investment mindset during the HIMSS25 Executive Summit here on Monday.
Phillips often called upon the more than 500 pe…

AI takes center stage at HIMSS25 Executive Summit

LAS VEGAS – HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf kicked off the HIMSS25 Executive Summit here today letting the sold-out audience know that the forum would help them answer the question of how to integrate AI and handle change management.
AI was on the min…

Healthcare data modernization requires advocacy, funding

LAS VEGAS – Healthcare data needs to be modernized, and any modernization effort needs funding to be viable. Advocacy is critical in this regard, and one advocacy campaign, centering on public health surveillance, has seen success in recent years.

Efforts to modernize healthcare data advancing

LAS VEGAS – Healthcare, as a business, lives and dies on the data. The goal of public health data modernization is to move from silos, brittle public health data systems to connected, resilient and sustainable “response-ready” systems that can help to …

Large language models can flag missed diagnoses in radiologist notes 

A HIMSS25 session will show how a large language model (LLM) can monitor radiologist notes to help ensure patients are protected from medical errors and also get their recommended follow-up appointments.

Yale New Haven calls Prospect deal ‘impossible’

Yale New Haven Health appears close to calling off a proposed acquisition of three Connecticut hospitals owned by Prospect Medical Holdings, saying the deal appears “impossible.”
The health system based its decision on what it called “mismanagement” at…

HIMSS25: Know Thy Patient goes beyond disease category and the social determinants

At HIMSS25, experts will share the details of PCCI’s Know Thy Patient (KTP) algorithm, which leverages an unsupervised machine learning method called clustering to identify groups of individuals based on similar patterns of healthcare utilization and a…